My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.